Actually Bill, you are only half right here.

The E/R blower does move the air out of the engine compartment, but that air
must come from someplace.

Whether the boat has a forced air intake or not isn't the question as the
exhaust blower will cause a forced air intake just from the pressure of it
operating.

Remember, it can't take air out that does not exist, and it can't
continually take air out if there is no supply.

A continuous duty blower, in any engine compartment, works to ensure the
compartment temperatures do not get too high... As we all know, too high of
temperatures used when mixing a combustible fuel with the surrounding air
for engine ingestion can cause the engine to vapor lock and therefore cease
operation until such time as the engine compartment can be cooled for proper
temperature mixing.

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Neither is your or Shen's. A E/R blower sucks the air out. Not blow air
in. Therefore there should be at the most a slightly negative pressure.